Event News

Choices abounded for close to 2,000 Boo Palooza participants in Wicker Park on a lovely Saturday morning and afternoon Oct. 29. A pumpkin patch, needle in the haystack, apples on a string, decorating pumpkins, bobbing for apples, making halloweeny thingees, face painting, learning to play chess, learning about healthy eating, getting photographed, playing ghost bingo,

In a tiny Chicago storefront theater on North Broadway named National Pastime Theater in January 1997, husband and wife team Jeff Jenkins, formerly with Ringling Bros.

Tabula Rasa's Second Annual Family Fun Run participants stepped off in Wicker Park on Saturday with their eye on providing more successful services to and ultimately having a transitional living center for juveniles released from Illinois prisons.

You might have guessed that the last day of Wicker Park Fest on Sunday would've been slower than Saturday, but you'd be wrong!

Hundreds of people walked, strolled and rolled through Wicker Park on June 18, stopping to participate in many of the fun activities or just talk with friends and neighbors from the Damen and Wicker Park Ave. entrance to the Damen and Schiller entrance including an area along the south side of the field. The event was the Wicker Park Children's Carnival.

Volatile weather may have kept some folks away, but plenty of people poured into the Do-Division two-day street fest

Magic Boat Puppet Theatre was a great success in its maiden voyage in the Wicker Park Playground on May 8 and will be back on May 22. A bee, butterfly, a fish, a crow, Abbott the Rabbit, Bear, Captain Gown and a boat load of children of all ages were participating in the first of a series of puppet show and dance event.

"The Revolution is declared ended," said Anthony Moseley. Then all the whacky revolutionaries ate... or were smeared with cake mid evening of Carnaval. Collaboraction's 9th annual fundraiser at the Double Door in the heart of Wicker Park continued the wild and crazy fun until 2 a.m.

The beat of the evening went from the sexy soul fusion of Nguzo and the Groovement to the Gypsy dance of Eyes Manouche followed by the gypsy beats from DJ RomaSoul in the Wicker Park Art Center, 2215 W. North Ave. as 2010 wound done and 2011 sprang into action.